Persian Literature, Ancient and Modern

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

PRONUNCIATION.

DIVISION I. The Early Tablets and Mythology.

CHAPTER IV. PERSIAN MYTHOLOGY.

DIVISION II. The Period of the Zend-Avesta.

DIVISION III. The Time of the Mohammedan Conquest and the Kor?n.

DIVISION IV. The Period Succeeding the Mohammedan Conquest.

INDEX.

Footnotes have been re-sequenced for uniqueness, have been collected at the end of the text, and are linked for ease of reference. The author notes, in her guide to pronunciation, that the diacritical marks “have been largely omitted” in the footnotes.

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FAC SIMILE OF A PORTION OF THE TITLE PAGE OF AN ILLUMINATED
“SHĀH NĀMAH” (SEE PREFACE)


PERSIAN LITERATURE
ANCIENT AND MODERN

BY
ELIZABETH A. REED

Member of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain
Member of the International Congress of Orientalists
Author of Hindu Literature, etc.

CHICAGO
S.C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY
1893
Copyright, 1893.
By S.C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY.
The Lakeside Press
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